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people take vacation a full or half-block at a time, enter Vac in the
block or for the desired half of the block. Use a forward slash to enter a split block,
for instance ER / Vac. If your
vacations do not span a full or even half block, you need to go through a few extra steps
to get the vacations to span just the days you want.
There are two ways to do it. Put a block schedule on
screen and click on a cell you've entered as a split Vac and other assignment. Open the
View menu and select Block width / Day. You'll see the
master schedule displayed by day and you can change the extra week (or 3 or 4 days) of Vac
to whatever service the person is doing the other half of the month. Go to View /
Block width / Custom to put the block schedule
back to your standard month/block view.
The other way to handle vacations is to enter them as
special requests. On the block schedule, you'll see special requests as green bars. The
position and length of the green bars represent the date and length of the request. Once
you've entered a request, you can click on the green bar to convert a request to actual
daily assignments. If a person is splitting the month between Vac and ER, for example,
you'll want to enter ER for the full month and then convert the special request to
assigned days of Vac.
The end result of the two methods is the same. The
feature that lets you click on a request flag to convert it to an assignment saves you
from having to change the block view to be by day or week and adjust the underlying daily
assignments yourself.
For
attending
schedules - OnCall includes a system to track
vacation, CME and sick days.
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